Resilient mounting for vehicle-bodies.



S. CHAMBERS. RESILIENT MOUNTING FOR VEHICLE BODIES APPLICATION mm JULY13. I914.

1,182,457. Patentd May 9,1916.

Witnesses SILAS CHAMBERS, OF TAHOKA, TEXAS.

RESILIENT MOUNTING FOR VEHICLE-BODIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1916.

Application filed July 13, 1914. Serial No. 850,692.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAs CHAMBERS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ta: hoka, in the county of Lynn and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Resilient Mounting for Vehicle-Bodies, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to resilient mountings for vehicle bodies.

The invention aims primarily to, mount a body in such manner as toeliminate the jars and jolts of a vehicle body when mounted upon steeltired wheels.

A further object is to provide a mounting which in addition to limitingthe body to motion in a vertical plane, allows for the local absorptionand elimination of jars and shocks by allowing the body to tilt, in arestricted but substantially frictionless manner about any of its fourpoints of resilient suport.

P With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a partthereof, the preferred embodiment .of my invention is illustrated.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a view inside elevation of a wagon bodyembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with the bodyremoved. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the securing means holding thesprings to the wagon body.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 6 represents a runninggear of a buggy or allied vehicle and includes the front and rear axles7 and 8. The front axle 7 is pivoted to the forward bolster 9 in theusual manner.

The wagon body 10 is depicted in the present drawings as being of theconventional buggy type, but it will be readily ap preciated that it maytake any form consistent with its use in connection with and the saidbearing and is rigidly secured, in

an upright manner, at its lower extremity by the U-shaped bolt or clip16. The bolt extends around the axle or bolster, as the case may be, andis tightened thereagainst by the securing nuts 17.

A helical spring 18 extends between and impinges against the lowersurface of the disk and the upper surface of the clip or bolt 16. therebeing four vertical posts and 00 operating parts, and there being alsofour helical springs, thus resiliently mounting the vehicle-body and atthe same time preventing its relative shifting, in a horizontal plane,with respect to the running gear. 'ith the horizontally rotatable disk,the body may be depressed or elevated to different degrees at itsvarious corners in a vertical and longitudinal plane and is rigidly heldagainst such unequal motions in a vertical and lateral plane and heldagainst all relative motion in a horizontal plane.

The many advantages of the foregoing are readily apparent and result inthe smooth and easy riding of a vehicle despite the fact that steeltires are used and the road beother than a smooth surface, although itis to be noted in this connection that the resilient mounting may beemployed with equal facility with corresponding success upon aut0mobiles or other types of vehicles.

What is claimed is The combination with an axle and a vehicle bodythereabove, of a clip fixedly mounted upon the axle, a bolt fixedlyconnected to the clip and extending upwardly therefrom, a bearing membersecured to the bottom of the body, a disk having a radial stub shaftjournaled in the bearing, said disk extending beyond the side of thebody and being revoluble about an axis extending transversely of thebody, said disk being'slidably mounted on the bolt, a spring extendingmy own, I have hereto aflixed my signature around 1311116 liolt aradligeaglng at its enlds in the presence of two witnesses. a ainst t e cipan .t e 's respective y, aid means on the bolt and engaged by the eSILAS HA 5 disk for limiting the upward movement of Witnesses:

the disk under the action of the spring. MCMILL CLAY'mN, In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as J. W. ELLIo'rr.

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. Washington, D. G."-

